Duchess of Malfi Quotations

Question 1

“It is some sin in us heaven doth revenge by her.”

Answer 1

Ferdinand

Question 2

“They are most luxurious will wed twice”

Answer 2

Ferdinand

Question 3

“To have gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death”

Answer 3

Ferdinand

Question 4

“See her in the shameful act of sin”

Answer 4

Ferdinand

Question 5

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust like diamonds we are cut from our own dust”

Answer 5

Ferdinand

Question 6

“Strangling is a very quiet death”

Answer 6

Ferdinand

Question 7

“I have youth and a little beauty”

Answer 7

Duchess

Question 8

“I’ll never remarry”

Answer 8

Duchess

Question 9

“For now, whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince”

Answer 9

Duchess

Question 10

“I winked and chose a husband”

Answer 10

Duchess

Question 11

“Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through most jewellers’ hands”

Answer 11

Duchess

Question 12

“Lusty widow”

Answer 12

Cardinal

Question 13

“I am puzzled in a question about hell”

Answer 13

Cardinal

Question 14

“Melancholy churchman”

Answer 14

Cardinal

Question 15

“How tedious is a guilty consciousness”

Answer 15

Cardinal

Question 16

“You have a pair of hearts as hollow graves rotten and rotting others”

Answer 16

Bosola

Question 17

“That throws a man down, only to raise them up”

Answer 17

Bosola

Question 18

“I look no higher than I can reach.”

Answer 18

Bosola

Question 19

“Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness”

Answer 19

Antonio

Question 20

“Death and disease through the whole land spread”

Answer 20

Antonio

Question 21

“I am Duchess of Malfi still”

Answer 21

Duchess